Simply saying that “Twitter is a popular social media tool” is certainly of no surprise to anyone. However, there are some things about the site that you might find to be fascinating. On a high-traffic day, Twitter can get as many as 175 million tweets on it. As far as how many visitors come to the site on a daily basis, the number hovers somewhere around 300,000. Approximately every second, there are 750 tweets that are exchanged, Twitter has around 140 million active users and about half of the members on Twitter are from the United States.

Therefore, it would make perfect sense that Twitter would expand its “marketplace” by adding music to its platform and it’s doing just that. Recently, Twitter made the announcement that it acquired the company We Are Hunted, which is a business based in San Francisco that specifically tracks the songs that are considered to be the most popular in social media and on the internet as a whole. Their relationship with Twitter is that, for some time now, We Are Hunted have been working on a music app for them; one that is rumored to officially make its debut around the time of the Coachella Music Festival.

For many reasons, this seems like it will be a brilliant collaboration, especially since there are so many famous and independent artists who directly connect to their fans through Twitter while also using it as an opportunity to share the latest news about what’s going on in their careers.

As it relates to We Are Hunted’s previous branding, it would appear that it will be completely retired and that Twitter will premiere a standalone app that We Are Hunted’s staff significantly contributed to. As a matter of fact, according to what is presumed to be the last post on We Are Hunted’s website, they stated that they will be shutting down shortly and all of the accounts on the website will be deleted.

However, it would appear that all of the “Twitter app buzz” is slowly transitioning from hyped chatter to there being signs of it being made public very shortly. Recently, media mogul Ryan Seacrest said that the app shows what artists are trending and according to CNET, th app could be available to iOS users any day now.

This could prove to be extremely beneficial as what is being branded as “Twitter Music” continues to evolve. Now something as simple as a band press kit could reach media contacts in record time. And even better, now Twitter followers can get personalized recommendations on the kinds of music that is out that they would enjoy listening to (that’s because Twitter Music recommends music, in part, based on the kinds of accounts that a user follows on Twitter).

Although My Space has been striving to become relevant again to the masses with some of their music upgrades and Facebook is still the ultimate go-to place for connecting with family members and friends, this recent music move could prove to be huge for Twitter. With the amount of people who use the site, the conciseness of the platform and the technology of We Are Hunted, this could change the total face of how music is done. Once again.